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CF Industries Holdings Inc (CF): Today's Featured Chemicals Winner

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CF Industries Holdings (
CF) pushed the Chemicals industry higher today making it today's featured chemicals winner. The industry as a whole closed the day up 1%. By the end of trading, CF Industries Holdings rose $4.76 (2.3%) to $213.30 on average volume. Throughout the day, 1.2 million shares of CF Industries Holdings exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 956,900 shares. The stock ranged in a price between $209.97-$214.75 after having opened the day at $210.11 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $208.54. Other companies within the Chemicals industry that increased today were:
Gevo (
GEVO), up 8.2%,
Arabian American Development Company (
ARSD), up 7.4%,
Solazyme (
SZYM), up 6.1%, and
Lightbridge (
LTBR), up 6%.

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CF Industries Holdings, Inc., through its subsidiary, CF Industries, Inc., manufactures and distributes nitrogen and phosphate fertilizer products, serving agricultural and industrial customers worldwide. It operates in two segments, Nitrogen and Phosphate. CF Industries Holdings has a market cap of $13.1 billion and is part of the basic materials sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 7.5, below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 43.7% year to date as of the close of trading on Wednesday. Currently there are 10 analysts that rate CF Industries Holdings a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and five rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates CF Industries Holdings as a
buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its solid stock price performance, impressive record of earnings per share growth, compelling growth in net income, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and notable return on equity. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company shows weak operating cash flow.